Market Analysis

Jordan Portelli

Unfortunately, few investors give the necessary importance to the duration concept. Initially investors should make a clear distinction between ‘duration’ and ‘modified duration’. The former is basically the duration of the bond, i.e. years to...

Antoine Briffa

The roller coaster ride in equity markets experienced in the past few years has led many to believe that somehow industrial innovation has stood still. This is far from the truth; the boundary that limits everyday life is being pushed aggressively...

Mark Vella

I think the markets have had enough of central banks, for the time being.
Undoubtedly, the world’s leading central banks have taken the limelight this month and have driven both sentiment and dictated market direction in the run up to each...

Mark Vella

Portfolios of retail investors are generally composed of a number of diverse asset types. The level or tolerance to risk between one investor and another differs and hence, not only the composition of portfolios but also the diversity in terms of...

Kristian Camenzuli

Many investors do not take advantage of diversified Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) when they create a strategic asset allocation for their portfolio and the need for diversification.
Below is an explanation of what an ETF is and also five ETFs with...

Edward Rizzo

After closing lower for the last three trading sessions, the MSE Share Index edged up by 0.22 per cent to 4,424.942 points today, reflecting the gains in the share prices of MIA, BOV, GO and MPC. Meanwhile, the three other active equities all...

Cosmo McNamara

The latest merger announcement between the pharmaceutical and agricultural giants, Bayer and Monsanto, represents the growing trend towards monopoly and overall market dominance.
The prospect of this merger, compounded in significance by the...

Antoine Briffa

Bayer first made an unsolicited offer for Monsanto of $122 a share in May this year. At the time Monsanto was trading in the high 80s; following the announcement the share price shot to over $110 per share.
Monsanto rejected the deal though adding...

Mathieu Ganado

Having just returned from Budapest, one would not easily notice that the country is in the middle of a tough anti-immigration stance under fire by the European parliament. What I did notice however, was a deeper pocket in my jeans upon my return,...

Mark Vella

There are a number of key risks assigned to a bond/fixed-income investment, namely credit risk, interest rate risk, market risk, among others.
However reinvestment risk is often disregarded, or rather not given its due importance by investors and...

Kristian Camenzuli

Markets have rallied strong in the build-up to the European Central Bank meeting last week. However, Mario Draghi disappointed markets as he did not announce any new form of Quantitative Easing.It’s normal that markets correct followign a...

Mathieu Ganado

The European Central Bank (ECB) meeting tomorrow seems to have markets expecting additional quantitative easing measures to be unrolled. Eurozone data has been flat to weak over recent months and questions are being asked as to what further assets...

Edward Rizzo

The MSE Share Index extended yesterday’s negative performance by a further 0.44 per cent to 4,441.442 points as the declines in the share prices of six equities outweighed the gains registered in BOV and GO.
Most notably, the 4.0 per cent fall in...

Mark Vella

With August out of the way, it is safe to say that all asset classes have come out of the gruelling summer months relatively unscathed. Pretty uncharacteristic for this time of the year. Credit and equity markets across both sides of the Atlantic...

Kristian Camenzuli

On Wednesday September 7, Apple invited the media to an event in which it is expected to launch a series of new products including:
iPhone 7 - The iPhone 7 will drop the headphone jack, include a new home button with haptic feedback, and look lot...

Mathieu Ganado

It was just a little under a year ago that I embarked on a three-week adventure in Peru and Colombia. If I could do it all over again, I would in a heartbeat. The beauty and colourful landscapes Peru has to offer are diverse and no words can...

Jordan Portelli

Undoubtedly, fixed income market participants are now concerned about the impact of a possible rate hike by the Federal Reserve (Fed) on their dollar denominated allocation. The situation in Europe surely fails to mirror image the latter...

Mathieu Ganado

The travel market, particularly in Europe and the Northern African region has been under significant stress following the attacks seen in Tunisia, Paris, Istanbul and Brussels amongst others throughout the year.
One could expect the bout of...

Edward Rizzo

The MSE Share Index climbed to its highest level in the last seven trading sessions as it rebounded by 0.40 per cent to 4,441.312 points. The positive performance of the Index was mainly as a result of the uplift in the share price of GO.

Mark Vella

With markets remaining in ultra-accommodative for most of the summer, all eyes are inevitably shifting once again focus on central banks in the developed world; and we’ve got a flurry of key central bank meetings to contend with over the next four...